Virginia B. Penhune

15.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
101 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Virginia B. Penhune is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Music. According to data from OpenAlex, Virginia B. Penhune has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 33 papers in Social Psychology and 20 papers in Music. Recurrent topics in Virginia B. Penhune's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (68 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (29 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (25 papers). Virginia B. Penhune is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (68 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (29 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (25 papers). Virginia B. Penhune collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Virginia B. Penhune's co-authors include Robert J. Zatorre, Joyce L. Chen, Julien Doyon, Pascal Belin, Christopher J. Steele, Leslie G. Ungerleider, Alan C. Evans, Jerry L. Chen, Tal Savion‐Lemieux and Jeremy Macdonald and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Virginia B. Penhune

98 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

When the brain plays music: auditory–motor interactions in music perception and production

2007 1.1k citations Robert J. Zatorre, Joyce L. Chen et al. profile →
Structure and function of auditory cortex: music and speech

2002 1.1k citations Robert J. Zatorre, Virginia B. Penhune et al. profile →
Distinct contribution of the cortico-striatal and cortico-cerebellar systems to motor skill learning

2002 668 citations Virginia B. Penhune et al. profile →
Listening to Musical Rhythms Recruits Motor Regions of the Brain

2008 571 citations Virginia B. Penhune, Robert J. Zatorre et al. Cerebral Cortex profile →
Contributions of the basal ganglia and functionally related brain structures to motor learning

2008 558 citations Virginia B. Penhune et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Virginia B. Penhune Canada	45	9.3k	2.4k	2.3k	1.2k	1.1k	101	10.7k
Eckart Altenmüller Germany	59	8.0k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	3.3k 1.4×	1.6k 1.3×	664 0.6×	332	11.4k
Christo Pantev Germany	67	12.8k 1.4×	2.8k 1.2×	1.2k 0.5×	876 0.7×	912 0.8×	216	16.3k
Timothy D. Griffiths United Kingdom	61	10.6k 1.1×	3.6k 1.5×	1.0k 0.4×	519 0.4×	939 0.9×	228	12.3k
Sonja A. Kotz Germany	69	11.3k 1.2×	5.1k 2.2×	2.6k 1.1×	337 0.3×	3.0k 2.8×	349	13.9k
Lawrence M. Parsons United States	42	7.2k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	2.7k 1.2×	231 0.2×	1.7k 1.6×	59	10.1k
Pascal Belin Canada	56	10.8k 1.2×	5.7k 2.4×	1.9k 0.8×	273 0.2×	1.6k 1.5×	165	13.2k
Jessica A. Grahn Canada	29	4.4k 0.5×	1.6k 0.7×	956 0.4×	527 0.4×	526 0.5×	93	5.9k
Martin Meyer Switzerland	45	5.4k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	657 0.3×	236 0.2×	1.2k 1.1×	153	6.4k
Deborah L. Harrington United States	48	6.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	200 0.2×	481 0.4×	96	8.0k
Mari Tervaniemi Finland	64	11.8k 1.3×	4.2k 1.8×	2.6k 1.1×	2.0k 1.6×	1.2k 1.1×	238	13.4k

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Chakravarty, M. Mallar, et al.. (2025). Patterns of Cerebellar–Cortical Structural Covariance Mirror Anatomical Connectivity of Sensorimotor and Cognitive Networks. Human Brain Mapping. 46(1). e70079–e70079. 1 indexed citations

Wiesman, Alex I., et al.. (2025). Human Auditory–Motor Networks Show Frequency‐Specific Phase‐Based Coupling in Resting‐State MEG. Human Brain Mapping. 46(1). e70045–e70045. 2 indexed citations

Pando‐Naude, Victor, Tomas E. Matthews, Andreas Højlund, et al.. (2023). Dopamine dysregulation in Parkinson's disease flattens the pleasurable urge to move to musical rhythms. European Journal of Neuroscience. 59(1). 101–118. 10 indexed citations

Steele, Christopher J., et al.. (2023). Using cortico‐cerebellar structural patterns to classify early‐ and late‐trained musicians. Human Brain Mapping. 44(12). 4512–4522. 7 indexed citations

Vaquero, Lucía, David Cucurell, François Clément, et al.. (2021). Arcuate fasciculus architecture is associated with individual differences in pre-attentive detection of unpredicted music changes. NeuroImage. 229. 117759–117759. 14 indexed citations

Penhune, Virginia B.. (2020). A gene-maturation-environment model for understanding sensitive period effects in musical training. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 36. 13–22. 15 indexed citations

Matthews, Tomas E., Maria A. G. Witek, Ole Adrian Heggli, Virginia B. Penhune, & Peter Vuust. (2019). The sensation of groove is affected by the interaction of rhythmic and harmonic complexity. PLoS ONE. 14(1). e0204539–e0204539. 78 indexed citations

Karpati, Falisha J., Chiara Giacosa, Nicholas E.V. Foster, Virginia B. Penhune, & Krista L. Hyde. (2018). Structural Covariance Analysis Reveals Differences Between Dancers and Untrained Controls. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 12. 373–373. 8 indexed citations

Brown, R. Michael, et al.. (2016). Melodic Priming of Motor Sequence Performance: The Role of the Dorsal Premotor Cortex. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 10. 210–210. 12 indexed citations

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Penhune, Virginia B., et al.. (2014). Effects of age and cognitive load on response reprogramming. Experimental Brain Research. 233(3). 937–946. 9 indexed citations

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Penhune, Virginia B. & Etienne de Villers‐Sidani. (2014). Time for new thinking about sensitive periods. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 8. 55–55. 16 indexed citations

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Zatorre, Robert J., et al.. (2013). Early Musical Training Is Linked to Gray Matter Structure in the Ventral Premotor Cortex and Auditory–Motor Rhythm Synchronization Performance. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 26(4). 755–767. 87 indexed citations

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Brown, R. Michael, et al.. (2012). Repetition Suppression in Auditory–Motor Regions to Pitch and Temporal Structure in Music. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 25(2). 313–328. 38 indexed citations

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Savion‐Lemieux, Tal & Virginia B. Penhune. (2010). The effect of practice pattern on the acquisition, consolidation, and transfer of visual-motor sequences. Experimental Brain Research. 204(2). 271–281. 18 indexed citations

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Penhune, Virginia B., et al.. (2010). Movement Kinematics of Prepotent Response Suppression in Aging During Conflict Adaptation. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 66B(2). 185–194. 14 indexed citations

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Warrier, Catherine M., Patrick C. M. Wong, Virginia B. Penhune, et al.. (2009). Relating Structure to Function: Heschl's Gyrus and Acoustic Processing. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(1). 61–69. 172 indexed citations

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Steele, Christopher J., et al.. (2007). fMRI-compatible electronic controllers. 246–246. 12 indexed citations

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Fraser, Sarah, Karen Li, Richard DeMont, & Virginia B. Penhune. (2007). Effects of Balance Status and Age on Muscle Activation While Walking Under Divided Attention. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 62(3). P171–P178. 22 indexed citations

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Wong, Patrick C. M., et al.. (2007). Volume of Left Heschl's Gyrus and Linguistic Pitch Learning. Cerebral Cortex. 18(4). 828–836. 158 indexed citations

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Penhune, Virginia B., Robert J. Zatorre, Jeremy Macdonald, & Alan C. Evans. (1996). Interhemispheric Anatomical Differences in Human Primary Auditory Cortex: Probabilistic Mapping and Volume Measurement from Magnetic Resonance Scans. Cerebral Cortex. 6(5). 661–672. 475 indexed citations

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